Amongst other things, we keep goldfish: they have such a nice, opulent colour in these hard times. How we came to do it was chiefly because of Wong, for Wong having an eye for beauty, the only one he has, suggested that a bow! of goldfish'as a table centre was the acme of form, We were not at firs clined to the idea, because yea go, when we had a similar decoration on the table, a guest to dinner, who arrived in "a semi-acute pathological condition, was found haking a pepper box into the water Deciuse one of the fish was making faces'at him, We told Wong this and/all-he said was "Maskee, can: puttee verandah "bowl, fish dnd' a small bottle containing: quantity of wriggling toénjoy the fresh air from that vantage point, Wong would drop round every now and than with a ight of Jealous solicitudes "in wale' optic" {0 see that we did not play any of the same foolishness as our ftlend.
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